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shkkmo

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    Comment #46405239

    I had a very negative view toward toll roads untill I found the Road Guy Rob youtube channel. His video on the Oklahoma toll roads completely changed my perspective. https://m.yout…

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    Comment #46404793

    > we don't want to start to treat digital device and software as living beings. Right, because then we have to decide at what point our use of AI becomes slavery.

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    Comment #46404735

    I'm polite in repose to being repeatedly called names and this is your response? If you think my behavior here was truly ban worthy than do it because I don't see anything in the I…

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    Comment #46404669

    > What kind of bullshit argument is this? Really? Works created using illegally obtained copyrighted material are themselves considered to be infringing as well. That isn't true. T…

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    Comment #46404479

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroelasticity#Flutter

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    Comment #46401864

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    Comment #46394142

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    Comment #46390282

    > You seem set on conflating "training" an LLM with "learning" by a human. "Learning" is an established word for this, happy to stick with "training" if that helps your comprehensi…

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    Comment #46390260

    > The problem is that it's not the user of the LLM doing the reproduction, the LLM provider is. I don't think this is legally true. The law isn't fully settled here, but things see…

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    Comment #46390197

    This is a stance that violates tha guidelines of HN. > Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. A…

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    Comment #46390173

    You keep conflating different things. > We have evidence of LLMs reproducing code from github that was never ever released with a license that would permit their use. We know this …

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    Comment #46390103

    > If I had a photographic memory and I used it to replicate parts of GPLed software verbatim while erasing the license, I could not excuse it in court that I simply "learned from" …

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    Comment #46376482

    > You’re conflating ideas to make a point I am talking specifically about the ideas you are disputing: >> partially signed off to corporate entities who are more than happy to cons…

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    Comment #46376441

    > you will have no problem citing a huge count of cases where lawyers do not respect their obligations towards the courts and their clients... There are almost 2000 disbarments ann…

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    Comment #46376239

    And it is still a lock if it was just hanging there and not actually locked as in this case.

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    Comment #46371046

    Amazon's echo and other such IoT devices do extend this to "houses" but isn't quite as ubiquitous.

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    Comment #46371021

    > judge's reduction it to a book equivalence is misleading and weakens the judgement Good thing that isn't what happened. It is called an "analogy" and is not a factual statement o…

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    Comment #46370993

    > None of my house, papers, or effects are owned by anyone but myself. Do you self host your own email? No? Those are "papers" that your email hosting provider can consent to provi…

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    Comment #46370928

    Perhaps if you had examples or decisions to explain what you're talkinh about, you would make your point better? As is, you are being politely called out as incorrect because you a…

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    Comment #46357780

    I guess that's why most computer games don't have NPCs...Oh wait there's entire computer games built entirely around interacting with synthetic NPCs. There are, of course, limitati…

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    Comment #46355609

    > Usually HN univocally complains about Apple‘s dominant App Store. There is a strong population on HN that dislikes walled gardens. In my experience there are also plenty of peopl…

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    Comment #46355534

    It's so obvious that I stated it in my comment...

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    Comment #46355521

    I can't quite follow your comment. If you have a predetermined number of things that can be "searched" for, that is a filter box, not a search box. Even if you want to stretch the …

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    Comment #46351943

    > There’s little reason to avoid prescribing medication alongside other approaches. There absolutely are downsides and risks. There is a reason the SSRIs carry a "blackbox" warning…

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    Comment #46330421

    A routine request for information is not shutting down a merger and presenting it as such is not good faith communication.